{"id":106112,"date":"2019-12-20T23:02:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T23:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/?p=130727"},"modified":"2019-12-20T23:02:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T23:02:08","slug":"a-heavy-dose-of-the-90s-in-cardpocalypse-now-on-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/a-heavy-dose-of-the-90s-in-cardpocalypse-now-on-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A Heavy Dose of the \u201990s in Cardpocalypse, Now on Xbox One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Talk to any kid in the early \u201990s and the \u201990s absolutely sucked! There was a hole in the ozone layer, war was popping up all over the globe, they had lost the voice of our generation in Kurt Cobain, and parents were just the worst. <\/p>\n

But talk to those \u201990s kids now and the decade rocked! Blossom, Pogs, Ren & Stimpy \u2013 it\u2019s never been bettered before or after. A lot of the bad stuff filters away and all of the boring in-between times have vanished from memories. Nostalgia, that painful longing for the past, was once treated as an illness but now we wear it as a badge of honor, triggered by a song or a film or a toy.<\/p>\n

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With our latest game, Cardpocalypse<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, it wasn\u2019t enough to only poke at people\u2019s nostalgia, we wanted to grab it by the Hypercolor t-shirt and, like Kris Kross before us, make it jump, jump. We wanted to remind the players about what it was like being a kid in the 90\u2019s, more than any Buzzfeed listicle could. Remember the time your favorite game got banned in school, or when that one kid called the teacher Mom? Back when you couldn\u2019t look up cheats and tips online, but had to wait for the latest games magazine to come out (or sneak a costly phone call to the hint-line). <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve filled the game with all the vibes that made being a ten-year-old so fun, those years before teen cynicism creeps in and clothes become blacker. Our theme song draws from afternoon cartoons like TMNT and Pok\u00e9mon, and every champion has their time in the spotlight with super fun character intro music \u2013 some of the tunes absolutely wail. We\u2019ve packed the artwork of the game with as many easter-eggs as possible which should provide eagle-eyed players with an abundance of warm \u201coh my god, remember that\u201d moments. The game-within-a-game, Mega Mutant Power Pets<\/em>, is our tribute to the trading card games that we grew up with, many of which and inspired us to start making games in the first place. And the stories and quests are like a time capsule of our collective memories at school all told through Jess\u2019s first week at Dudsdale Elementary. <\/p>\n

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There\u2019s been an over-abundance of \u201980s themed retro and the timing seems right for \u201990s reminiscing to have it\u2019s day in the sun, we\u2019re mega-thrilled to have Cardpocalypse<\/a><\/em><\/strong> as a part of this. It was such a fun time to relive while creating the game. Hopefully there\u2019s plenty more to come before we start seeing the \u201cyou were a child of the \u201920s if\u2026\u201d articles or until \u201cOK, Millennial\u201d starts becoming a catchphrase. One thing\u2019s for sure though, nostalgia will never grow old.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Talk to any kid in the early \u201990s and the \u201990s absolutely sucked! There was a hole in the ozone layer, war was popping up all over the globe, they had lost the voice of our generation in Kurt Cobain, and parents were just the worst.  But talk to those \u201990s kids now and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}